Complete, sensitive and fast viral genomics with SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v2 – Pico Input Mammalian
Sequencing the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 pandemics is crucial for public health authorities to understand identity and genomic changes of the virus and its transmission patterns.
Takara Bio supports researchers and clinicians studying this novel coronavirus with the SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v2 – Pico Input Mammalian, which was used for SARS-CoV-2 virus sequencing.
Widely used solution for viral genomics
Thanks to built-in human ribosomal depletion and fast protocol, the SMARTer® Stranded kit has been widely used by world leading institutes for viral genomics and genomic epidemiology.
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SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v2 – Pico Input Mammalian
The SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v2 – Pico Input Mammalian is used to generate strand-specific RNA-seq libraries for Illumina sequencing from 250 pg–10 ng inputs of purified total RNA. This kit incorporates Takara Bio’s proprietary SMART (Switching Mechanism at the 5’ end of RNA Template) technology and includes refinements to the SMARTer method for stranded RNA-seq that simplify the library preparation workflow and improve sequencing performance. This method was developed to work with either high- or low-quality total RNA, does not require additional rRNA removal methods or kits, and produces sequencing libraries that retain strand-of-origin information. The integrated removal of cDNAs derived from rRNA—typically present in high abundance following cDNA synthesis from total RNA inputs—makes the workflow extremely sensitive, yielding data that is highly reproducible with low mapping to rRNA.
SMART-Seq® Stranded Kit
The SMART-Seq Stranded Kit is used to generate strand-specific RNA-seq libraries for Illumina® sequencing from 1–1,000 sorted cells or 10 pg–10 ng of purified total RNA. This kit incorporates Takara Bio’s SMART (Switching Mechanism at the 5′ end of RNA Template) technology and includes refinements to the SMARTer method for stranded RNA-seq that simplify the library preparation workflow and improve sequencing performance.
